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Updated Oct. 10, 1996 12:01 a.m. ET

From &ldquo;The Dictionary of Art&rdquo; page 41:

In [J. M. W.] Turner&rsquo;s work there is, above all, the echo of Claude [Lorrain] the Old Master, the artist who was at once the originator of the accurate depiction of sunlight in landscape painting and an exemplary exponent of ideal landscape as a vehicle for the expression of poetic ideas. Turner maintained these notions while progressively deconstructing Claude&rsquo;s style in the interests of his own dynamic experimentation with colour and light. In...